Project Progress Report - Capacity4Dev

EU-PARMART Yearly Progress ReportWith the collective efforts new hand pumps have been installed and pipe water supplyscheme has been connected in six villages. As a result, 105 families are able to get safedrinking water.Some of the issues that rural women prefer to address on priority basis are violenceagainst women, girls‘ education, migration, irrigation facilities, and livelihoods besideswater rights.Social Auditing, ensuring accountability and transparency, equal participation ofmarginalised groups in implementation of MNREGAs and other develop schemes in thevillageParticipation in National and International Forums:Mr. Sanjay Singh, Secretary, PARMARTH represented organisation in5 th Madurai Symposiumorganized by DHAN Foundation, on September 14-18, 2011 at Madurai, Tamil Nadu. He alsorepresented 6th World Water Forum that was held at Marseille, France on March 12 –17, 2012.2.3Activities that were planned unable to implement:1. Expert Group Seminar on Model Study (01)2. Meta legal Action (10)3. Training of Panchayat representatives and Jal Saheli on Gender based Water Budgeting(01)4. Training on Documentation use of IT (02)5. Training on MGNREGA, Social Audit and RTI (02)6. Technical Training of Women Leader on Water Conservation techniques and OperationMaintenance (01)7. Expert group deliberation on Findings (01)8. Interface with Panchayat and Bureaucracy (01)The above mentioned programmes were unable to implement due to specific problemsencountered are: Initial phase of project moved, slightly in slow phase. As internalising and understandingof project vision took much longer time then expect among implementing agencies andthe project staff. It was hard to identify and document water rights violation cases under meta legal cases,since many of the survivors did not come forward to narrate their violation due to fearof notorious local power holders, in the initial period of the project implementationprocess. The months of monsoon and harvesting season the community people and targetbeneficiaries were busy with agricultural work and they had no time to spear toparticipate in project activities and actions. The compulsions and interferences of local feudal village leaders, constantly obstructedvillage meeting, and public campaigns as planned. The unforeseen incidents, momentary activities of the organisation, meetings with othernetwork consumed some amount of time therefore,some of the planned programmeswas not feasible to organise or implement.2.4Implementing agency Assessment of the Action outputs, outcomes and impact inrelation to specific and overall objectives: The project immensely contributed to the otheron-going projects and programmes that are being supported by other donors for the last decadeand above. The decades of initiatives and interventions of the implementing agency has furtherstrengthened in the region, with the EU support. Since this is the only one organisation that hasbeen vehemently advocating for women‘s right to water, conflict related to water and VAW,Parmarth Samaj Sevi Sansthan Page 10